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Chesme Church, Saint Petersburg, Russia, back elevation #40414724
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Church of St John the Baptist Chesme (1780 by Yury Felten in Gothic Revival style), Saint Petersburg, Russia, back elevation. It was erected to commemorate the anniversary of Russia's 1770 victory over Turkish forces in Chesme Bay in the Aegean Sea during the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774